The cyclist spokesman is talking total crap. Just because a child cannot commit an offence doesn't mean that they can do the act. If his assessment was correct an 8 year old boy could do all the rape he wanted.
Anyway, having dealt with that moron.....
I understand this was a PCSO, not a Police Officer.
Now it gets difficult, because Russ is correct, if there's no one else for 2 miles around, then fine, no problem. But if shes doing wheelies round OAP's and playing chicken with kids on foot, of course the PCSO would have been acting reasonably.
Of course we don't know which of those was the reality, but a reasonable guess is that its somewhere in the middle. The public have this habit of lying to the press, and Police Forces have a habit of not telling the whole story, in case it upsets someone.
But that wont stop the usual suspects ranting on about how bad all police officers are and how this is conclusive evidence of that......